--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/12/06 8:19:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Râja Nader Râm, Jan 12th 2006: > > > > > > His Divine Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi > > > > Wow. In both of those titles, only one word (the > > family name, Nader or Mahesh) is not made up. > > What is it about human beings that convinces them > > that if they add more honorifics to a person's > > name, the person becomes more honorable? > > Is that why people add honorifics to someone's name? > > Or is it because *they* feel the person is already > especially honorable? or to put it another way, do > folks add honorifics because they wish to do more > honor to a person? > > I think I would feel better just to hear some official body of > Vedic scholars refer to him as Maharishi rather than Mahesh Yogi, > let alone some Divine Holiness addition.
Me too. I was just pointing out that adding honorifics to someone's name is usually an effect rather than a perceived cause. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
